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Historical Event(s)
– Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
– Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.
– Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
– The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
– Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
– Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
– At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
– The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
– John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
Who Were Born On ?
– Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
– Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)
– Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
– Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
– René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642)
– Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
– George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)
– Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)
– George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (d. 1670)
– John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)